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#SaveTheRohingya

The Rohingya need your help.

The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority group in Myanmar. The estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar have been subjected to systematic persecution and grave human rights abuses by authorities for decades.

Despite the election of a nominally-civilian government in November 2015, the new Myanmar Government has not shifted its policies of persecution of the Rohingya. Over 100,000 now live in internally displaced persons camps with no freedom of movement or access to food, water, sanitation, healthcare and education. A report released by the International State Crime Initiative at the Queen Mary University of London has concluded that the Rohingya “face the final stages of genocide”.

Since 2012, Partners has been providing emergency relief to those in camps near Sittwe, including rice distribution, basic medical support, tarps for shelter as well as animals, seeds and fertilizer to help establish more sustainable food supply. PLEASE HELP provide life-saving relief to these vulnerable children and families and advocate for their freedom.

Hafsa and her family tried to escape.

Help save the Rohingya by following these 3 steps.

1

Make A Donation

Your support enables relief to get to camps where over 100,000 displaced Rohingya are trying to survive. And until the end of 2016, it will go twice as far thanks to a generous donor who MATCHING all donations to the Rohingya. Simply select ‘Emergency Relief’ as your designation.

Start A Campaign

You can help advocate for the Rohingya by starting a fundraiser to provide life-saving care to these vulnerable children and families. Starting your own online campaign not only helps raise much needed support, but it also introduces your friends and family to a people group that we know you care about.

Share Their Story

Please help us share Hafsa’s story with the world. We’ve setup a simple tweet and Facebook post you can use below, or you can make your own. Remember to use #Rohingya to join your voice to the chorus of people demanding an end to these human rights violations.

“We are Rohingya. Our government should give us equal rights. We do not want to stay in the detention center anymore.”

How your support is saving lives.

As well as providing critical relief items such as food and shelter, your support invests in sustainable solutions, such animal husbandry, which help empower Rohingya communities facing severe oppression.

Rice

With limited or no access to any food supplies, these regular deliveries of rice are critical to saving lives and bringing hope.

Animals

Providing goats for farming helps establish new sources of income and oppressed communities a sense of self-worth.

Vegetables

To improve child nutrition, vegetables and chili and oil for cooking are being provided to struggling families.

Water Pumps

Fresh water for those with no access to clean water increases sanitation and reduces the risk of water-borne illnesses.

A timeline of the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Despite claims from many within the Government of Myanmar, there is significant evidence indicating that the Rohingya have inhabited the Rakhine (Arakan) State region in Myanmar for many centuries. Below is a brief timeline of their history.

800A.D

The first Muslims to come to Burma arrived in the ninth century.
(Moshe Yegar, Between Integration and Secession)

1785

Invasion and annexation of Arakan by Burmese rulers. Although the original kingdom of Arakan was tightly interwoven with the Muslims in Bengal, it was impossible to distinguish between the Arakanese Buddhists and Muslims.
(Moshe Yegar, Between Integration and Secession)

1799

First historical reference of the Rohingya published in Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma Empire written by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton.

1860

Buddhists and Muslims who fled to the neighboring Chittagong region of British Bengal in 1799 to escape persecution, return to Arakan which is now a British territory as a result of the 1st Anglo-Burma War.
(Aye Chan, The Development of a Muslim Enclave in Arakan (Rakhine) State of Burma (Myanmar))

1948

Rohingya become citizens of Burma under the Union Citizenship Act 1948. Burma’s parliamentary government and Prime Minister U Nu refer to the group by the name ‘Rohingya’ and they enjoy all the benefits of full citizenship.
(Gregory B. Poling, Separating Fact from Fiction about Myanmar’s Rohingya)

1977

Burma’s Operation Nagamin aimed to “scrutinize each individual living in the state”, “designate citizens and foreigners in accordance with the law” and “take actions against foreigners who have filtered into the country illegally", leads to the brutal targeting of Rohingya. Over 200,000 flee into Bangladesh.
‘Burma’s Treatment of the Rohingya and International Law’ published by Burma Campaign UK

1982

The passing of the repressive Burma Citizenship Law in 1982 stripped the Rohingya of any remaining vestiges of citizenship. The legal and practical constraints imposed render it “almost impossible” for the Rohingya to be recognized as citizens of Burma.
(Interim Report on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, prepared by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights).

1991

Further persecution through the Pyi Thaya (Clean Nation) Operation forces over 250,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh to escape widespread forced labor, summary executions, torture and rape at the hands of the Burmese military regime.
‘Burma’s Treatment of the Rohingya and International Law’ published by Burma Campaign UK

2012

In June, tensions rose between the Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya resulting in widespread violence in the region. The government failed to intervene and the violence escalated. There is evidence, however, that security forces were directly involved in targeted attacks and other human rights violations against the Rohingya.
(Amnesty International, Myanmar: Abuses against Rohingya Erode Human Rights Progress)

Overtly blaming the Rohingya for trouble in the region, President Thein Sein stated on 12 July 2012 that the only solution to the violence would be to send the Rohingya to other countries or refugee camps.
(Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Myanmar moots camps, deportation as Rohingya ‘solution’)

2013

Thein Nyunt, Chair of the New National Democracy Party, argued that no changes should be made to the citizenship law and instead declared that ‘The citizenship law is intended to protect our race; by not allowing those with mixed blood from making political decisions [for the country], so the law is very important for the preservation of our country.
(DVB, Islamophobia: Myanmar's racist fault-line)

2016

On June 22 it was announced that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has banned officials from using oppressed Muslims' communal name, Rohingya, in an attempt to ease tensions between the country's majority Buddhists and minority Muslims.
(ABC, Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi bans use of Rohingya name for oppressed Muslims)

Researchers from The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at the Queen Mary University of London released a statement following violent clashes with security and military forces in October, concluding that "The Rohingya face the final stages of genocide."
(Time, Burma’s Million-Strong Rohingya Population Faces 'Final Stages of Genocide')